# damma
## English
### Alternative forms

* ḍamma, Damma, dammah

### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ضَمَّة (ḍamma, “a joining”), instance noun of the verb ضَمَّ (ḍamma, “to join”). Refers to the joining of the lips together when making an /u/ sound.

### Noun

damma (plural dammas or damma)
* (linguistics) In the Arabic script, the vowel point for u, appearing as a small curl placed above a letter ( ـُ ) and designating a short u /u/. If the Arabic letter و (wāw) immediately follows, it indicates a long ū /uː/.
* In Iranian Persian ـُ represents the vowel /o/. If the letter ـو immediately follows it represents the diphthong /ow/. This usage differs from other Arabic script languages and from classical Persian, in which the diphthong /ow/ did not occur.

#### Translations
### See also

* Arabic diacritics on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* fatha
* kasra
* sukun
* shadda
* tashkil

### Anagrams

* Madam, madam

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic ضَمَّة (ḍamma).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /da.ma/
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

damma m (plural dammas)
* damma

## Italian
### Alternative forms

* dama

### Etymology

From Latin damma, dāma.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdam.ma/
* Rhymes: -amma
* Hyphenation: dàm‧ma

### Noun

damma f (plural damme)
* (literary, obsolete) (male or female) fallow deer
    Synonym: daino

### Further reading

* damma in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* dāma

### Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *demh₂- (“to domesticate, tame”), the same root of Latin domō (“I tame”) and English tame.

### Noun

damma f (genitive dammae); first declension
* A fallow deer

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Descendants

* Vulgar Latin: dāmus
** Old French: dain
*** Middle French: dain
**** French: daim
**** → Catalan: daina

### References

* “damma”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* damma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

## Maltese
### Etymology

Borrowed from Sicilian dama and/or Italian dama.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈdam.ma/

### Noun

damma f (plural dammi or damem)
* die (polyhedron used in games of chance)

## Old Frisian
### Verb

damma
* to dam

## Oromo
### Noun

damma
* honey

#### Derived terms

* dammaawuu

### References

* Gamtaa, Xilaahun (2004) Galmee Afaan Oromo fi Afaan Ingilizii Barsiisuu - Comprehensive Oromo-English-Dictionary (COED), New York, USA: Karrayyuu Publishing, →ISBN, page 212

## Pali
### Alternative forms

* 𑀤𑀫𑁆𑀫 (Brahmi script)
* दम्म (Devanagari script)
* দম্ম (Bengali script)
* දම‍්ම (Sinhalese script)
* ဒမ္မ or ၻမ္မ or ၻမ်မ (Burmese script)
* ทมฺม or ทัมมะ (Thai script)
* ᨴᨾ᩠ᨾ (Tai Tham script)
* ທມ຺ມ or ທັມມະ (Lao script)
* ទម្ម (Khmer script)
* 𑄘𑄟𑄴𑄟 (Chakma script)

### Adjective

damma
* gerundive of dameti (“to tame”)
* in need of taming, in need of restraint

#### Declension
### References

Pali Text Society (1921–1925) “damma”, in Pali-English Dictionary‎, London: Chipstead

## Swedish
### Etymology

damm +‎ -a

### Verb

damma (present dammar, preterite dammade, supine dammat, imperative damma)
* (transitive) to dust, to remove dust
    Angela dammade ivrigt symaskinen.
       Angela eagerly dusted the sewing machine.
    att damma av
       to dust off
    att damma ned
       to cover with dust
    att damma på
       to punch, to hit (someone in a fight; as if with a duster)
* (intransitive) to raise dust, to be dusty
    och så for han sin väg, så att det dammade omkring vagnen.
       and so he went away, so the dust whirled about the wagon.

#### Related terms

* damma av
* damma ned
* damma på
* dammborste
* dammhandduk
* dammig
* dammkorn
* dammrock
* dammvippa
* dammvirvel
* dammviska
* damning

### References

* damma in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
* damma in Albert Montgomery, Svensk-engelsk ordbok (1914)